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A case study of L1 interference in speech acts among Chinese L2 students

Improving linguistic and communicative competence will minimise challenges faced in Intercultural communication especially with globalisation and technology advancement. The study aimed at identifying potential areas of L1 interference in speech production relating to five speech acts: compliments,...

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Main Authors: Pramela Krish,, Oh, Chen May
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2020
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15137/1/35100-122652-1-PB.pdf
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spelling my-ukm.journal.151372020-09-08T01:49:13Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15137/ A case study of L1 interference in speech acts among Chinese L2 students Pramela Krish, Oh, Chen May Improving linguistic and communicative competence will minimise challenges faced in Intercultural communication especially with globalisation and technology advancement. The study aimed at identifying potential areas of L1 interference in speech production relating to five speech acts: compliments, requests, refusals, apologies, and complaints. The L1 interference is examined based on four approaches which are Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis, Interlanguage Analysis, and Contrastive Rhetoric. Data was collected through a discourse completion task comprising five speech acts: compliments, requests, refusals, apologies, and complaints, and an interview to find out students’ reasons for committing L1 interferences. The findings revealed lexical, discourse and syntactic interferences in the students’ speech where students faced difficulties in understanding the different semantic systems between Chinese and English, were influenced by cultural knowledge and transferred linguistic rules from their L1 to the L2. The main reasons for these interferences were lack of opportunities for practice and limited vocabulary repertoire. Therefore, it is important to develop ways to improve linguistic and communicative competence to minimise misunderstanding and awkward sentences in speech communication. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2020 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15137/1/35100-122652-1-PB.pdf Pramela Krish, and Oh, Chen May (2020) A case study of L1 interference in speech acts among Chinese L2 students. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 26 (1). pp. 106-118. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1258
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description Improving linguistic and communicative competence will minimise challenges faced in Intercultural communication especially with globalisation and technology advancement. The study aimed at identifying potential areas of L1 interference in speech production relating to five speech acts: compliments, requests, refusals, apologies, and complaints. The L1 interference is examined based on four approaches which are Contrastive Analysis, Error Analysis, Interlanguage Analysis, and Contrastive Rhetoric. Data was collected through a discourse completion task comprising five speech acts: compliments, requests, refusals, apologies, and complaints, and an interview to find out students’ reasons for committing L1 interferences. The findings revealed lexical, discourse and syntactic interferences in the students’ speech where students faced difficulties in understanding the different semantic systems between Chinese and English, were influenced by cultural knowledge and transferred linguistic rules from their L1 to the L2. The main reasons for these interferences were lack of opportunities for practice and limited vocabulary repertoire. Therefore, it is important to develop ways to improve linguistic and communicative competence to minimise misunderstanding and awkward sentences in speech communication.
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title_short A case study of L1 interference in speech acts among Chinese L2 students
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url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15137/1/35100-122652-1-PB.pdf
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